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Landscape with Peasants Dancing

David Teniers the Youngerc. 1645–50

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

Before a rustic inn, a group of villagers converse, embrace, and dance to a bagpiper’s tune. Teniers was one of many Netherlandish artists whose paintings celebrate the joys of country life. These delicately painted works were created primarily for an elite urban audience nostalgic for a simpler existence.

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  • Title: Landscape with Peasants Dancing
  • Creator: David Teniers (Flemish, 1610–1690)
  • Date Created: c. 1645–50
  • Physical Dimensions: Framed: 69 x 96.5 x 8 cm (27 3/16 x 38 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 49 x 78 cm (19 5/16 x 30 11/16 in.)
  • Provenance: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, Frances W. Ingalls [1926-1996], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Jane Taft Ingalls [1874-1962], Cleveland, OH, by descent to her daughter-in-law, Frances W. Ingalls, Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, NY, sold to Jane Taft Ingalls, Baron Louis de Rothschild [1882-1955], East Barnard, VT, sold to Rosenberg & Stiebel, In possession of the United States Forces in Austria (USFA), restituted to Louis de Rothschild, In possession of the Nazis; selected by Hitler for the Führermuseum, Linz, Baron Louis de Rothschild [1882-1955], Vienna, confiscated by the Nazis, Baron Albert de Rothschild [1844- 1911], Vienna, by descent to his son, Baron Louis de Rothschild
  • Type: Painting
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1996.271
  • Medium: oil on wood
  • Fun Fact: This painting combines two of David Teniers's specialties: landscape and scenes of country life.
  • Department: European Painting and Sculpture
  • Culture: Flanders
  • Credit Line: Gift of the Frances W. Ingalls Trust
  • Collection: P - Netherlandish-Flemish
  • Accession Number: 1996.271
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